A collective work by Rosie Heinrich Sepideh Karami Daisy Hildyard Katrin Hahner -

Drawing inspiration from and propelled by studies into the entanglements between new scientific researches that challenge the concept of the bounded “individual”, the current collapsing of dominant orders and categorisations, and the hospicing of modernity/coloniality, this research project explores (visual / textual / polyvocal) expressions of the dissolution and abolition of the concept of the “individual”. Lynn Margulis once said: in the arithmetic of life, one is always many. Marisol de la Cadena uses the phrasing: human… but not only. That we are multispecies symbiotic assemblages requires an unlearning of habitual patterns of thinking. Replete with excesses, extending beyond skin, fur, bark: binaries like “inside” / “outside” are troubled. Selves are plural, uncontained, decentered, polyvocal. On the other hand, Trinh T. Minh-ha’s concept of “plural I” highlights the political aspect of the individual as standing out, taking position and responsibility: an “I” that can potentially stand for many without reducing it to the crowd. Rooting into the foundations of modernity’s grammars that shape ways of relating, and pressing into language’s inherent evolution, this research project aims to advance a necessary evolution in perception. It attempts to do this through expanded

reading/writing/listening/making practices (eg. developing notational scores; claying with words and voices): interrupting, disorienting and seeking openings that gesture towards other ways of relating and worlding. Conversation-led, collaborative, decentralised, plurally-shaped: the practice reflects the research, engaging fully with the phenomenon of being more-than one. With initial conversations among Daisy Hildyard, Katrin Hahner, Rosie Heinrich and Sepideh Karami, this collective connects to potential (un)known voices through conversations, searching into what is not included in the single narrative of colonial modernity.

::::: Sepideh Karami is an architect, writer, teacher and researcher with a PhD in Architecture, Critical Studies, from KTH School of Architecture, Sweden (2018). She works through artistic research, experimental methods and interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of architecture, performing arts, literature and geology, with the ethos of decolonization, minor politics and criticality from within.

::: Visual artist Rosie Heinrich (UK born, Amsterdam based) explores the constructs of self-storytelling, belief, reality and (spoken or wordless) language. She works with audio and video, book making, performance, photography and installations, drawing from an exhaustive practice of interviewing, and using recorded conversations and their transcription as her central medium for both research and production.

:: Daisy Hildyard holds a PhD in the history of science, and has previously published essays on the language of science, and on seventeenth-century mathematics. Her first novel Hunters in the Snow received the Somerset Maugham Award and a 5 under 35 honorarium at the USA National Book Awards. She lives with her family in North Yorkshire, where she was born.